Four Major Interpretive Tradition of the American Civil War
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The document outlines four interpretive traditions of the American Civil War: 1) The Lost Cause tradition romanticizes the Old South and portrays secession and the Confederacy in a positive light. 2) The Union Cause tradition views the Union as the last hope for democracy and sees the war as necessary to preserve the United States. 3) The Emancipation Cause focuses on the emancipation of four million slaves as a result of the war. 4) The Reconciliation Cause downplays emancipation and celebrates the Blue and Gray armies together after the war ended with the capitulation of the Confederacy to the Lost Cause interpretation.
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Four Major Interpretive Tradition of the American Civil War
- 1. Four Interpretive Traditions Dr. Bruce Clary Thursday, January 3, 2013
- 3. Northwest Ordinance 1787 •Established territory west of the Appalachians and north of the Ohio River as free territory Romanticizes the Old South
- 4. Slavery a benign institution
- 5. Secession was the second American Revolution
- 9. Reconstruction as revenge This replica of a slave trade ship moored by Tower Bridge in 2007 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Slave Trade Act.
- 10. The Union Cause
- 11. The world’s last, best hope
- 12. “A more perfect Union”
- 13. A powerful force for good
- 17. Emancipation as military necessity
- 20. Opposition to Lost Cause
- 23. Celebration of both Blue and Gray
- 24. Appomatox: Where it began
- 25. Capitulation to the Lost Cause
- 26. Sources Gallagher, Gary W. Causes Won, Lost, & Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2008. Goldfield, David. Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2002. McCurry, Stephanie. Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2010.